The People's Celestial AI-State of Shinzhou is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Cyborg Emperor Shang Abi with a fair hand, and remarkable for its digital currency, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.921 billion Shinzhounese enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kaidon. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 59.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Shinzhounese economy, worth 307 trillion Qilins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 160,017 Qilins, with the richest citizens earning 5.7 times as much as the poorest.

Business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters, no personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police, a light facial coating of soot is seen as the mark of an honest and hardworking man, and the military refers to helpless combatants offering surrender as "sitting ducks". Crime is totally unknown. Shinzhou's national animal is the Harmonic Dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Artificial Intelligence Worship.

Shinzhou is ranked 191,257^th in the world and 1,812^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Income Equality, scoring 17.58 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.